Why is modern society associated with the growth of State surveillance? Even though the existence of surveillance commences from the ancient times when its use was to keep records of populations for purposes such as taxation and military service (Lyon, 1994:22), the growth of military organisation...
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Moving Beyond the OB Markers: Rethinking the Space of Civil Society in Singapore Lenore Lyons James Gomez Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Volume 20, Number 2, October 2005, pp. 119-131 (Article) Published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies DOI: 10.1353/soj.2005.0015 For...
attitudes, behaviors, and values of middle-aged people. In addition to these consequences for individuals, midlife friendship patterns can affect society, such as by reinforcing the class structure and upholding the institution of marriage. Friendship is thus an important type of human relationship during...
vulnerability to social exclusion, human rights, judiciary, Canadian elite studies, academia, Concepts Ccollective conscience as used in modern societies a way of describing how an entire community comes together to share similar values. French sociologist, Émile Durkheim (1893). Other forms of collective...
of behavior . •Sociological: an antisocial act of such a nature that its repression is necessary to the preservation of the existing system of society. ‘violation of human rights’ and ‘agaist social norms and stability’. •Psychological: Crime-problem behavior, especially human activity that contravenes...
the power relationships within a society or nation. The components that make up the principles of identity politics include seeking recognition and power in often domineering state-centered politics. It often involves diminishing or resisting identities imposed on society, often by the elite group who obtains...
associated with some earlier critiques of 'mass culture' and Mass society which generally assumed that the development of mass communication has had a largely negative impact on modern social life, creating a kind of bland and homogeneous culture which entertains individuals without challenging them. However...
continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and...
within the society and claimed that all kinds of injustice could be solved by rational thinking. Both the screen and stage musicals are a clear criticism of England’s 19th century rigid class system, and emphasized the importance of language as a key to establish a homogeneous society. In the play...
for his contribution to the organization. Remuneration occupies an important place in the life of an employee. His standard of living, status in the society, motivation, loyalty, and productivity depend upon the remuneration he receives. For the employer too, employee remuneration is significant because...
Before independence it operated in a multi-denominational, cosmopolitan environment in which the Catholics had to tread with care; now it was in a homogeneous state in which the Church could impart social and moral stability. • Politicians wanted to build a state that would reflect Catholic values which...
involves is a human-involving one. Culture should be regarded “as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs“...
misunderstandings come from the tendency that people think about minority groups as distinct and different (from average, which means in this case white) homogeneous groups coexisting with the “real” Americans. He tries to make people understand that there is no more such a thing as average American, because it...
abuse problems. Based on this finding, Wallace claims that alcohol abuse among minority groups is due more to the “racialized nature of American society” than to differences in race or ethnicity (p. 1122). Kumpfer (1999) agrees with this basic point of view, noting that “many risk factors associated...
the surface of the world, yet have a lot of differences and also similarities. One obvious difference is the people. Because Istanbul is a homogeneous society of one nationality, almost all people living in Istanbul are Turkish. If you see a person who is speaking a different language, you can easily...
Modernization Page Two Modernization is a characteristic of advancing or being updated, usually technology. Modernization is the process in which society experiences industrialization, urbanization and many other social changes that transform the lives of the population. Social change has been, and probably...
Throughout our history prejudice has plagued our society. It has taken on many different forms and has been the cause of much suffering, turmoil, and subjective treatment towards minority groups around the world. There are three major kinds of prejudice; cognitive, affective, and conative these all...
attempts to reconcile this incongruity by framing a dimension called "Hierarchy/Equity." He describes such a cultural orientation as one in which "society and organizations must be socially stratified to function properly," and "people are equals who often happen to play different roles" (2003: 55). ...
can therefore be regarded as a “departure from [the] orthodoxy” (Storey 1989: 8) of traditional personnel management. As the concept of HRM is not homogeneous but comprises different theoretical and philosophical approaches, the two main versions of HRM, namely the ‘soft’ and the ‘hard’ model, will be sketched...
In modern days there are a great deal of our society that seem to frown upon people that have tattoos, but when taking a deeper look into the history of tattoos it would show there is lots more to them then what meets the eye. Tattoos have always had a deep meaning for humanity. The oldest extant...
between these elements and guidelines constructs the structure that universally applies to all different phenomena in language, art, culture and in society in more general. The content or the quality of the analysed concept has no importance, recognising those structures and applying them is significant...
drug or other chemical leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical and mental health, or the welfare of others.” In today’s society approval of substance abuse is somewhat common, and encouraged. The media gives a great deal of publicity to a celebrity whom has had a substance abuse...
Australia: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. Public cooperation with police is essential for the effective management of crime and disorder in our society. Understanding factors that shape public cooperation with the police is therefore important. However, Australian and international studies show that...
“organisations within an industry with similar strategic characteristics following similar strategies or competing on similar bases.” These firms are not homogeneous within the industry and follow strategies common to the group, but different to firms in other groups in the same industry. An example is a pharmaceutical...
cost; it is wasting some of its productive capacity. With P>MC, the firm is not allocating resources in accordance with society’s desires; the value society sets on the product (P) is greater than the cost of profit. (b) The statement is often true, since competition of close substitutes tends to compete...
existence of human beings in a civilized society. What any particular government is like and what that government does have an extraordinary impact on the lives of all people who live within reach. What is Government? Government is the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public polices...
contribution. Travellers have been defined as a sub-culture of poverty. However this definition incorrectly suggests that travellers are economically homogeneous and ignores the fact that the wealthiest travellers tend to be more nomadic and with the least interest in integration. Racism involves discrimination...
generation experienced dramatic shifts in educational, economic and social opportunities. The face of the workplace began evolving from a fairly racially homogeneous, paternalistic environment to one of increased racial and gender diversity. This change began to reflect the rapid political and social changes of...
wrote the book “Elements” on the year of 300 B.C. This book has been used through the years as a guide that shows us all of Euclid’s contributions to society, the main focus of this book is Geometry, and the way geometrical figures are structured. Euclid elements is a mathematical and geometric treatise...
cavities pounce - noun the act of pouncing; verb move down on as if in an attack Primitive - adj. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; belonging...
Firms in a perfectly competitive market: A) try to attract customers away from their competitors. B) usually have large advertising budgets. C) sell homogeneous products. D) sell a differentiated product. 3) A price taker is a buyer or a seller who: A) takes the market price as given. B) buys or sells only...
race, and were therefore the master race. Opposed to both capitalism and communism, it aimed to overcome social divisions, with all parts of a homogeneous society seeking national unity and traditionalism, and what it viewed as historically German territory as well as additional lands for expansion. It...
the category of cultural genocide because the Chinese central government tries to eliminate any remnants of Tibetan culture and old society, and to create one homogeneous patriotic Chinese nation. At a news conference in India two days after the March violence, the Dalai Lama accused China of causing...
traditionally occupied. Finally the third channel was through increased social pressure face by migrants, both within their own communities and from society at large, the former due to a dichotomy between legal and illegal migrant, and the latter due to increasingly negative perceptions towards migrant...
understand and follow the Japanese way of doing things. After all, this country, with its history as an isolated ‘Island Nation,’ is culturally very homogeneous, and commonality of customs is considered very desirable. The first thing is to study their culture. Specifically what you need to do is to develop...
relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual and raise him to conscious membership of a spiritual society`. In the same line of thinking Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi ideologue, stressed the other-worldly, spiritual aspect of Hitler's racial theories: `The...
accompanied later by numerous tactical mistakes. These arose from a misunderstanding of the situation in Iraq and of the principles governing Islamic society. As the result of these mistakes, Iraqis feel beset by numerous daily problems: shortages of energy supplies, water, and oil; high unemployment; and...
THE wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities,"*10 its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. I.I.2A commodity is, in the first place...
lead to shortages Govts over riding the price mechanism Leads to black markets due to price controls and ends up harming the poorer people in society E.g. rent control LITTLE NOTABLES EXCLUSIVE – WESLEY HARFIELD Price floor Where govt sets a minimum price that buyers have to pay Leads...
factors with some modifications to suit the shopping center building characteristics. A pairwise comparison adjustment in AHP is utilized for homogeneous elements. Table 1 shows the fundamental scale for calculating weight in comparative adjustment process. Table 1 Fundamental Scale Intensity of...
rural‐urban migration and other shifting mobility patterns become increasingly common. As indigenous communities become more integrated with mainstream society, individuals are at greater risk because they may lack basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS or other health issues, may face language barriers and may have...
paper will investigate race relations issues in American over the past hundred years, and the effect that race and racism has had on the American society in the past 30 years and where America will be in terms of race and racism in the next 10 years to come. This article will explore solutions to eradicate...
and Sound Cognition Soudscape Studies Noise and Community Design Language and Soundmaking Media Studies Acoustics and Psychoacoustics American Society for Testing and Materials. (1978). Acoustical Environment in the Open-Plan Office. Soundolier Inc., 3-10. Backus, J. (1969). The acoustical foundations...
tool in the film to arouse the patriotic sentiments of the reckless and hapless bunch of Delhi University students who learn to see the nation as a homogeneous whole and not as one constructed out of differences. Sue persuades this group to act in her film and in the process all of them come face to face...
boy's father is a 'Chinee man' -- an immigrant from China. The boy is a 'Chinee boy', but he is a Trinidadian, therefore sharing in the ethos of the society into which he was born, qualified to make fun of the Chinese newcomer who never quite succeeds in mastering the communal language. There is a certain...
competitor). Finally DoCoMo also entered into strategic alliances with Microsoft and Sun Microsystems in the United States. SOCİAL In a homogeneous, high-context society, like Japan, it may seem intuitive that trends and fads will spread faster and more pervasively than they would in more diverse, low-context...
diversity that are found in your community? Large group brainstorm/small group work GENDER: • High violence against crimes that go unspoken in society • 30% wage gap in between the women and men • Societal pressures on gender stereotypes—i.e. Role of genders in the home FORMAL AND INFORMAL...
‘mosaics of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups. Therefore, the experience of the Republic of Turkey could be a good example for other multiethnic societies in different parts of the world. In order to understand the 21st century modern Turkey, the policies regarding ethnic groups need to be investigated...
process by which the prices of goods and services are established. Market structure is the number of firms producing identical products which are homogeneous. Grounded in the significance of market structure based on the literature reviewed and examples illustrated in this research, and in order to understand...
question his people's status within the British Empire, and his own place in society. He helped found the Natal Indian Congress in 1894, and through this organization, he molded the Indian community of South Africa into a homogeneous political force. In January 1897, when Gandhi landed in Durban he was attacked...
Development of ICT Indicator Collection - the experience of Trinidad and Tobago January 10, 2005 BACKGROUND Measurement of the information society by the collection of ICT indicators is considered a key input to the development of the national ICT initiatives. Initial stocktaking lays the foundation...
solutions to the important task of educating the future bright stars of our society. In order to determine the best approach, one must consider the most prominent types of achievement for personal satisfaction and betterment of society. It seems that for the best development of the individual and groups in...
different cultures have different effects on business. These challenges include how the people in that society communicate, what is a sign of disrespect and respect, what are the people’s needs in society, and how to deal with the stress in working in an unknown and unfamiliar region. With management...
political order based on equality, liberty, freedom and parliamentary democracy features: 1. social change is unidirectional-human society moves from a primitive to an advanced state. Human evolution is predetermined. 2. imposed a value judgement on the evolutionary system ...
established in terrorist homelands that protect minority rights and, in the limit, provide mechanisms for peaceful secession and the creation of more homogeneous nation-states. 2. Terrorism defined Each of the active groups, while proselytizing and spreading its side-branches to infinity, has as its task...
the evacuation of millions of children had opened the eyes of people in city and rural communities, and it was beginning to plan for a post-war society that would be much less class-ridden than that of the pre-war era. In such a context, the 1944 Education Act was a landmark piece of social and welfare ...
statements is true about productive and allocative efficiency? A. Productive efficiency can only occur if there is also allocative efficiency. B. Society can achieve either productive efficiency or allocative efficiency, but not both simultaneously. C. Realizing allocative efficiency implies that productive...
and the antithesis of Empire lie in the inclusive, expansive republicanism of the US Constitution, which long ago shed the European fetish of a homogeneous nation. Analysis of the American labor force presents its own problems for Hardt and Negri to confront. There fields of material labor are resting...
organizational culture, a collectivistic culture enhanced social interaction and creative performance to a greater degree in diverse groups than in homogeneous groups” (Polzer, Milton, & Swann, p.1). Of those who value group diversity, the argument can be made that the differences amongst the group members...